How to Make a Video Using Photoshop

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A simple guide to creating and exporting animations and stop-motion films in Adobe Photoshop
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Make a stop motion film or animation using Photoshop CS4.

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  2. It will have options in a drop down box to select or you can have a custom number of your choosing, OK.
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  3. In the dialogue box, select the Location to save to. File options, select QuickTime Movie, Settings, Settings, Compression Type H.264, OK. Size, 1280 X 720 HD, check Preserve Ratio box, in the drop down select Letterbox, OK. Render.
    1. If you do not like the "timing" you can open Window, Animation. This will open up the animation bar, the bottom right corner of the toolbar is a little "film strip". The small image in the toolbar has a little upside down triangle, click this and a list of times will appear, you can try out different time delays between frames. To check out the different times click back on the little "film strip" and you will be able to watch the video.
    2. Or you can start over and re-render your video selecting a different number of frames per second.
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    How do I do it if there is more than one layer?
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    Use the Timeline function and arrange your layers in the timing that you want.
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      • The more frames per second the smoother the movie will appear.
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      • You can use Bridge(Camera Raw) to reorder your frames and do any basic touch-ups like color or exposure that they might need.
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      • Make sure to number your images in sequential order, it is easiest to do this in Bridge. Select all images and open in Camera Raw, once in Camera Raw, Select All images again. Click Save As, select your starting number then how many digits in your extension number
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      Things You'll Need

      • Computer
      • Images
      • Photoshop CS4 or later recommended
      • QuickTime

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